Advanced Fluid Mechanics

NPTEL is offering online course for undergraduate/ postgraduate students in Advanced Fluid Mechanics.

About the course:

• This is an advanced course in Fluid Mechanics.
• The subject Fluid Mechanics has a wide scope and is of prime importance in several fields of engineering and science.
• Present course emphasizes the fundamental underlying fluid mechanical principles and application of those principles to solve real life problems.
• Special attention is given towards deriving all the governing equations starting from the fundamental principle.
• There is a well balanced coverage of physical concepts, mathematical operations along with examples and exercise problems of practical importance.
• After completion of the course, the students will have a strong fundamental understanding of the basic principles of Fluid Mechanics and will be able to apply the basic principles to analyze fluid mechanical systems.

Course Layout:

• Week 1: Brief recapitulation of some preliminary concepts of Fluid Mechanics : Fluid Kinematics
• Week 2: Brief recapitulation of some preliminary concepts of Fluid Mechanics: Dynamics of Inviscid Flows and Reynolds Transport Theorem
• Week 3: Dynamics of viscous flows - Derivation of Navier-Stokes equation
• Week 4: Some exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation-Steady Flows
• Week 5: Some exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation – Steady Flows (contd) and Practical Applications
• Week 6: Some exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation-Unsteady Flows, Introduction to Turbulence
• Week 7: Introduction to turbulence (contd.), Boundary Layer theory
• Week 8: Boundary Layer theory (contd.)
• Week 9: Boundary Layer theory (contd.), Potential flow and flow past immersed bodies
• Week 10: Potential flow and flow past immersed bodies (contd.)
• Week 11: Compressible flows
• Week 12: Compressible flows (contd.)

Duration: 12 weeks

Enrollment Ends: September 21, 2020

For more details, please visit: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_me54/preview